Prof. Dr. Jose Manuel Otón is a Managing Director at the Centro de Materiales y Dispositivos Avanzados para TIC (CEMDATIC), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. His research interests include photonics, liquid crystals, nanoimprint, ferroelectric materials, electro-optics, liquid crystal phase gratings, and beam steering.

Javier Pereiro-García is a Teaching Assistant at the Photonics Technology and Bioengineering (TFB) Department from the Technical University of Madrid (UPM). He is also a Ph.D. candidate at CEMDATIC (Centro de Materiales y Dispositivos Avanzados para TIC). He completed his Master of Telecommunication Engineering at the UPM carrying a Photonics Engineering specialization at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Currently, he is working on developing phase-tunable devices based on liquid crystals.

Prof. Dr. Xabier Quintana is currently a Professor at the Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain. He has been developing his activity at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros (ETSI) de Telecomunicación, UPM, since 1993. His research interests include guided optical communications (anisotropic waveguides and unconventional fibers), unguided optical communications (atmospheric transmission and space), photonic applications of liquid crystals (displays, micro-displays, phase devices, tunable filters, and modal lenses), and organic electronics (OLEDs and organic photodetectors).

Manuel Caño-García is a distinguished researcher and an Associate Professor at the Technical University of Madrid. He received his two Master’s degrees (M.Sc. in Physics and M.Eng. in Electronic Engineering) from the University of Granada. After that, He obtained another M.Sc. in nanotechnology from the Autonomous University of Madrid. Then, he completed his Ph.D. in photonics and the title of international Ph.D. at the Technical University of Madrid. When he finalized his Ph.D., he continued at UPM for one more year with a Spanish official grant (POP 2018). During this postdoc, he got a UPM grant to do an internship (1 month) at the Sydney Nanoscience Hub (Sydney University) in Sydney, Australia. His research interests are based on two kinds of devices, namely organic photonic integrated circuits (PIC) and tunable phase devices, or a combination of both.

Dr. Eva Otón is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Applied Physics at the Military University of Technology in Warsaw, Poland. She specializes in blue-phase photonic crystals and is currently developing new research in this field for photonic device applications. She previously worked at a Nikon research center in Tokyo, Japan, and at CEMDATIC R&D Center at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, where she did her PhD studies developing liquid crystal phase modulators.

Prof. Morten Andreas Geday did his studies in Chemistry and Biotechnology, at Aarhus University (DK), with an 8-month stay in the chemistry department of chemistry at the University of Calabria (IT). He did his Ph.D. in condensed matter physics in 2001, at Oxford University (UK), with a three-month stay at Washington University (US) chemistry department in 2000. Having worked three years in a spin-off company in the UK, he was granted in 2004 an incorporation grant and in 2005 a five-year Ramón y Cajal research fellowship at the UPM, which in 2008 was converted into an I3-fellowship which was again converted into a permanent position as Associate professor (Professor Titular) in 2012 and Full professor (Cátedratico) in 2022. Since his incorporation at the UPM, his research has been centered on the development, characterization, and simulation of liquid crystal devices, with applications outside conventional liquid crystal displays.